Chapter 944 Wang Fei
In the backyard of the advertising company, there is a small bungalow. This bungalow is an attached facility of the two villas of the advertising company. It should have been the garage and servants' room of the villa before.
However, after the advertising company took over this place, they renovated this small bungalow and used most of it as a place to store utensils (props) and equipment. They also divided it into two rooms to use as a storage room for daily sundries.
Wang Fei, also known as Gou Wa.
He joined the advertising company last year. After graduating from junior high school, Wang Fei came to work in the advertising company under Luo Yang's arrangement.
Wang Fei was a child who grew up in the mountains. He was very strong. When he just graduated from junior high school, he was almost as tall as Luo Yang. But after all, he was still young, still a boy. Under the arrangement of Luo Yang and Li Xiaoyun, he became a "special" employee of the advertising company.
After arriving at the advertising company, Li Xiaoyun offered him a salary. Although he could not formally sign an employment contract due to his age and could only work as an apprentice, Li Xiaoyun and still paid him according to the normal employee standards.
Wang Fei does odd jobs in an advertising company, which is basically a laborer. His job is in the logistics department, but his actual work is usually with the production department. In addition to assisting the logistics department in managing some props and tools, he usually runs around with the production department, such as doing some layout, lighting, and prop work when shooting commercials or print advertising photography.
As for where to live, Luo Yang originally planned to rent a house for Wang Fei, but Wang Fei refused. He said that the rent was too expensive and it was not worth the money. In view of his idea, Li Xiaoyun thought about it and asked someone to clean up a room in the bungalow at the back. This room became Wang Fei's residence. Except that he could not light a fire in it, there was absolutely no problem living there.
Wang Fei is a very sensible child. Although the conditions of the bungalow are not very good, he is very satisfied with it. Now he has a job and can earn a lot of salary every month. In addition, working with the production department not only allows him to learn things, but sometimes he can also earn some bonuses. He can earn more than one hundred yuan a month. This income is considered ordinary in Shanghai, but it is very high in his hometown.
Wang Fei is very frugal. The advertising company has a cafeteria and the company has good benefits in this regard, but the cafeteria only serves one meal, which is lunch.
Because there was no way to light a fire in his residence, Wang Fei had to eat lunch in the canteen every day, and for dinner he had to save the extra food from lunch. As for breakfast, it was easy. There were breakfast stalls nearby, and Wang Fei would usually buy a few big buns and take them home with pickled vegetables and dried radishes.
When there is work in the production department, Wang Fei can get a few meals by working in the production department to improve his life. For Wang Fei, who has suffered hardship since childhood, such a life is already very satisfying.
Of course, Luo Yang, Li Xiaoyun, and Lin Yan also thought about helping Wang Fei. Li Xiaoyun even suggested to Wang Fei that he live in her house and eat together, but Wang Fei refused. Wang Fei is a child with ambition, ideas, and self-esteem. In his opinion, Uncle Luo's family has helped him a lot, and he should be grateful and not ask for more. Because of his persistence, Luo Yang and others gave up the idea of continuing to persuade him.
In a flash, a year passed, and Wang Fei's life and work in Shanghai gradually got on track. Moreover, this child was not only sensible, but also very smart and hardworking. Many people in the company had a very good impression of Wang Fei. Even several old masters in the production department liked him very much and gradually taught him a lot of things.
In addition to work, Luo Yang and Li Xiaoyun discussed and suggested that Wang Fei teach himself to go to high school. They enrolled him in night school and he would take the part-time high school entrance exam in the future.
There are several nights of classes a week in the self-study high school, but Wang Fei sometimes has to work with the production department and does not have that much time, so he mostly relies on self-study. The progress of self-study is pretty good. So far, he has passed two exams. If nothing unexpected happens, he should have no problem getting a high school diploma in two years.
In addition to these, Wang Fei gradually fell in love with acting at work. One day, he happened to meet Zhang Pingping who came to the advertising company to play. When he learned that Zhang Pingping was a student of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, he was very envious and privately asked about some professional aspects of acting.
Zhang Pingping is a girl with an outgoing and straightforward personality. In addition, given the close relationship between the Luo Yang couple and Wang Fei, Zhang Pingping not only did not look down on Wang Fei who came from the mountains, but also taught Wang Fei some things as a teacher in the capacity of an elder sister.
Although he only learned the basics, Wang Fei studied it very seriously. He also borrowed a few books from Zhang Pingping and studied them with a dictionary. Every night when all the people in the advertising company had gone off work and there was no one here, Wang Fei would follow what Zhang Pingping taught him, what he had learned from books, and what he had seen from other actors at work.
It was the same today. After 5:30 in the afternoon, people at the advertising company got off work. Except for a few departments who were working overtime, most people had already left.
After seven o'clock, there were even fewer people left and the sky gradually darkened. Most of the lights in the two villas in front were turned off, leaving only a few lights still on.
As usual, Wang Fei had dinner first. Today, there was no work in the production department. He had been assisting the logistics department in the company all day. For lunch, he had stewed meat patties, scrambled eggs with tomatoes and roasted eggplant in the cafeteria. Wang Fei ate half of it at noon, and the remaining half was his dinner.
After dinner, Wang Fei cleaned the yard, tidied up some things, and then started reading a book.
He usually arranges his schedule like this: read for an hour, then do some exercises to prepare for the next self-study college entrance examination.
After finishing all this, it was around nine o'clock in the evening. At this time, there was basically no one in the advertising company, the villa was pitch black, and those who had worked overtime had all returned home.
At this time, Wang Fei walked out of the room, stood in the yard in front of the bungalow, stretched his body, and then began to do his own performance training.
His performance training method was taught to him by Zhang Pingping, which was nothing more than some body expression, facial expression simulation, lines training, etc., and then combining the three to use, as if it was a one-man sketch.
Wang Fei worked very seriously, and although some aspects seemed a little immature in the eyes of professional teachers, he also had his shining points. In particular, Wang Fei had a temperament that ordinary drama academy students did not have. This temperament was related to his experience and could not be simulated by others.
Performance training is boring and tedious, but Wang Fei enjoys it and takes it very seriously.
After the first training session was completed, Wang Fei frowned slightly, as if he was not satisfied with some aspects of his training. He stood there and thought for a moment, repeated several steps in the training, and then adjusted the problems in the steps, trying to find the most appropriate way of expression.
After a while, Wang Fei started over again. This time it seemed much more vivid and expressive than the previous time. However, who would have thought that he stopped halfway, tilted his head to think, and started over again.
He repeated this several times, and only when Wang Fei finished it all at once did he reveal a satisfied smile. But he thought about it again and tried another way. This time it seemed to be better than the last time. Just as Wang Fei was fully immersed in it, suddenly there was a light snapping sound in the darkness not far away. Wang Fei immediately stopped what he was doing, stepped back to the side of the house cautiously, reached out and picked up a shovel at the door, and shouted in that direction: "Who? Come out!"
"Xiao Fei, it's me!" A familiar voice came from the other side. Wang Fei was stunned, and then he saw Lin Yan walking out from the darkness.
Lin Yan had been standing there for a long time. After get off work, she went home first, picked up her daughter and stayed at home for a while. After Yangyang came back, she had dinner with the children and then returned to the company.
She didn't park her car downstairs of the company, but instead parked it in a nearby parking lot and then walked over.
After entering the company, Lin Yan went straight to the backyard, and when she got there, she happened to see Wang Fei just starting his acting training. Lin Yan did not disturb Wang Fei, but hid in the dark not far away and quietly observed Wang Fei. She saw Wang Fei's training from the beginning to the end, and the more she watched, the more surprised she was. She never thought that what Zhang Pingping said to her was actually true. Wang Fei really learned to act by himself without anyone knowing, and from what he showed in training, Wang Fei already looked like a good actor.
Lin Yan looked at it for a long time. The more she looked, the more surprised she became. At the same time, she felt a little happy.
Because she suddenly found that Wang Fei was very suitable for the protagonist of the advertisement in terms of temperament and image. If there were any differences, there were only three aspects. The first aspect was Wang Fei's age. Although the protagonist in the advertisement was a young man, Wang Fei was too young. He was only a high school student now. However, Wang Fei was strong and tall. If he wore makeup, it would not matter if he was a young man in his 20s. This was acceptable.
The second aspect is Wang Fei's acting ability. Although Wang Fei has been learning from Zhang Pingping for some time, Zhang Pingping herself is only half-baked and is not a good teacher at all. Wang Fei's acting is mostly based on his own learning and exploration, and in many aspects, he still has a lot of shortcomings in the eyes of professional teachers. But fortunately, this is not a movie or a TV series, but just an advertisement, so the requirements for acting ability are not too high, and the fit of the character is the most important.
As for the third, it is Wang Fei's fame. Wang Fei is just an employee of an advertising company, or even an apprentice. He is not an actor and cannot be compared with the previous candidates. But Lin Yan is not very worried about this. As long as the character fits and has certain abilities, the effect of the filming will not be bad. As for whether he is famous or not, Lin Yan believes that she should be able to communicate and coordinate with Party A.
